WWI Digest 1080 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Back with you guys. My visit to the Museo del Aire by Dave Watts 2) Re: Huntley on Iron Crosses by Dave Watts 3) Re: MkA Whippet by "Leonard Endy" 4) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by "Leonard Endy" 5) Re: AM UPDATE by REwing@aol.com 6) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by "Peter Crow" <888444222@email.msn.com> 7) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Ernest Thomas 8) Re: AM UPDATE by Ernest Thomas 9) Re: AM UPDATE by Zulis@aol.com 10) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by REwing@aol.com 11) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Nigel Rayner 12) Re: AM UPDATE by huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) 13) Werner Voss by Mick Fauchon 14) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by "Lee Mensinger" 15) Re: Huntley on Iron Crosses by "Alexandre de C. Triffoni" 16) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 17) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 18) heep of coots wasRe: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 19) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by KarrArt@aol.com 20) Re:Yassir diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 21) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 22) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Suvoroff@aol.com 23) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Ernest Thomas 24) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Zulis@aol.com 25) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by "Peter Crow" <888444222@email.msn.com> 26) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Ernest Thomas 27) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by Ernest Thomas 28) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by "Jim Pliml" 29) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 30) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by KarrArt@aol.com 31) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by KarrArt@aol.com 32) Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Zulis@aol.com 33) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by Ernest Thomas 34) Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) by Ernest Thomas 35) lint smoke wasRe: diaphanicity was by KarrArt@aol.com 36) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by KarrArt@aol.com 37) Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE by huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) 38) Musical Ramblings,was old coot angst... by Ernest Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:02:40 -0500 From: Dave Watts To: wwi Subject: Re: Back with you guys. My visit to the Museo del Aire Message-ID: <199806210202.VAA28648@sam.on-net.net> Hi Pedro, Thanks for the report, I'm sure all appreciated your input! Best Wishes, Dave W. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:21:33 -0500 From: Dave Watts To: wwi Subject: Re: Huntley on Iron Crosses Message-ID: <199806210221.VAA29138@sam.on-net.net> Hi Tom, I have to whole heartedly agree with Dave Z., I really enjoy getting this information. Please send the scans along. Thank you...Thank you........Thank you! Dave W. > As I promised: one more instalment in the never-ending series of useless information: > This time it's Ian Huntley on the development of the German crosses. He's got stuff here >that Woodman didn't mention, especially the use of the Navy flag with a red and black >stripe. > > The illustrations can be sent, just drop me a line and I'll send out the > scans. >Tom: > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:34:48 GMT From: "Leonard Endy" To: wwi Subject: Re: MkA Whippet Message-ID: <358c708d.27081467@legend.firstsaga.com> On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:28:19 -0400, you wrote: >Hmm, color for a Whippet. Such a can of worms you've opened :). Oh well, the list seems to be drawn to these types of questions. > Current >thought is that they color of the Whippet would be Khaki-Brown, a color >similar to Modelmaster Field drab (a brown color). Current opinion also says >that a color similiar to US Olive drab is in order. I've painted tanks in >both colors. I might go with the Field Drab in lieu of the OD, just for a change of pace. Alberto sent me a photo that distinctly looks OD in nature. Thanks Len ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:36:53 GMT From: "Leonard Endy" To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <358d715e.27290589@legend.firstsaga.com> On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:35:02 -0400, you wrote: >KarrArt@aol.com wrote: > >> Yeah yeah yeah- one of these days! Diaphonicity( a new word!) has gotta be one >> of the most difficult things to model. > >What's 'Diaphonicity" anyway? > The title of an album by the police ? Oops that was Synchronicity. Think I might have gave away my age. Let's see who is first to ask what an album is... Len ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:53:33 EDT From: REwing@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <324a2f2a.358c75ae@aol.com> In a message dated 6/20/98 3:09:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bpearson@kaien.com writes: << Just to let you know that I haven't run off with everyone's money (despite what Rick may have said to the contrary) ...>> Lately, the news has been covering the fact that a lot of Canadian men have been coming to the U.S. to get Viagra. Bob kept smiling and saying, in Arizona, he was going back to Canada and become a Mountie!!!!!! ;^} Makes ya wonder! -Rick- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:01:56 -0700 From: "Peter Crow" <888444222@email.msn.com> To: Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <000a01bd9cc0$f5383f80$2b16fed0@default> Robert wrote.... >The state of being diaphanous (my word should have been "diaphanicity"). >Tranlucent- something you can sorta see through, smoky. You wouldn't want to >see somebody like Yassir Arafat wearing something diaphanous out of the Victoria's Secret catalogue. Talk about a sobering image... maybe Verlinden will use this idea for a new figure!!!!! Peter Crow ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:00:37 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <358C7755.5F33@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: "diaphanicity"). > Tranlucent- something you can sorta see through, smoky. You wouldn't want to > see somebody like Yassir Arafat wearing something diaphanous out of the > Victoria's Secret catalogue. > Smoke and flame are difficult to freeze and duplicate in miniature. > Robert K. Ah!!!I've only ever seen it done halfway convincingly once. And it was really too bad, because everything else about this epic 'Attack on the Yamato' diorama was pretty crappy. And, No, I didn't need the image of Yassir Arafat in something lacey. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:05:07 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <358C7863.66AA@bellsouth.net> REwing@aol.com wrote: Bob kept smiling and saying, in > Arizona, he was going back to Canada and become a Mountie!!!!!! ;^} > Makes ya wonder! > -Rick- ROTFLH!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:07:45 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <546ee5bf.358c7902@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 22:55:47 EDT, Rick writes: << Lately, the news has been covering the fact that a lot of Canadian men have been coming to the U.S. to get Viagra. Bob kept smiling and saying, in Arizona, he was going back to Canada and become a Mountie!!!!!! ;^} Makes ya wonder! For the record... we Canadians have no need for viagra. In a country where temperatures of -40 are not unusual, the trick is to try NOT to be frozen stiff...er... solid. Dave Z ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:27:36 EDT From: REwing@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <96d28b03.358c7dac@aol.com> In a message dated 6/20/98 6:06:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lemen@wireweb.net writes: << I'm proud to say that at the ripe young age of 45, I've finally achieved "old coot-hood". BTW, I prefer "skeptic"! Robert K.>> <> I joined the ranks of the 45's last Monday. :^( We sure have a lot of Gemini's on this list!! -Rick- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:36:03 -0700 From: Nigel Rayner To: wwi, Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980620203603.006bd4b8@pop.mindspring.com> You gave your age away as being younger than anyone that remembers Uriah Heap (sorry Bob :-)) BTW, can anyone actually remember the name of any "song" by Uriah Heap? All I remember is a vague melange of noise (but then that's what I remember of most of the Seventies). Mind you, coot-hood is kind of crazy; I spent 40 minutes last night attempting to glue PE 1/72 gun triggers to an Albatros control column (and failing!). Nigel At 22:38 20/06/98 -0400, Leonard Endy wrote: >On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:35:02 -0400, you wrote: > >>KarrArt@aol.com wrote: >> >>> Yeah yeah yeah- one of these days! Diaphonicity( a new word!) has gotta be one >>> of the most difficult things to model. >> >>What's 'Diaphonicity" anyway? >> >The title of an album by the police ? Oops that was Synchronicity. >Think I might have gave away my age. Let's see who is first to ask >what an album is... > >Len > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:45:04 -0500 From: huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) To: wwi Subject: Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: snip>Once everything is done the originals are going to the list library. We may >do a few extra CDs so that if any late comers to the list want one they can >purchase it for $15 plus postage and this will go to either cover the List >librarian's xerox and/or mail costs, or to purchase some books for the >library. > Bob, Please send me your mailing address as I have missplaced my copy. I would like to send you a check for $15.00 and put my name in the bucket for one of the CD's. Thanks John Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:56:57 +1000 (EST) From: Mick Fauchon To: WW1Av Subject: Werner Voss Message-ID: Gentlemen, I believe I may have located the original culprit. Note the following, and I quote from Ira Jones': An Air Fighter's Scrapbook [London: Nicholson & Watson, *1938*]: ".........unlike the redoubtable German Jew, Werner Voss.....". He doesn't quote a source for this remarkable "fact", but fact it ain't. And that wasn't all he got wrong....... Cheers, Mick. -- -- Mick Fauchon | Internet: ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M M M Tasmanian Devil: "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M M M M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy now!" M M M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:06:04 -0500 From: "Lee Mensinger" To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <358C86AB.704FC2C4@wireweb.net> REwing@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/20/98 6:06:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > lemen@wireweb.net > writes: > > << I'm proud to say that at the ripe young age of 45, I've finally > achieved "old > coot-hood". BTW, I prefer "skeptic"! > Robert K.>> > > < it and > I was 73 yesterday. Lee >> > > I joined the ranks of the 45's last Monday. :^( We sure have a > lot of > Gemini's on this list!! > -Rick- You are now an "Honorary 2nd Class Coot". Lee ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:27:02 -0300 From: "Alexandre de C. Triffoni" To: Subject: Re: Huntley on Iron Crosses Message-ID: <199806210325.AAA28531@srv1-cas.cas.nutecnet.com.br> Hi Tom, Could you please send me the illustrations mentioned? Thanks in advance ! Best regards, Alexandre - atcampos@nutecnet.com.br > > The illustrations can be sent, just drop me a line and I'll send out the > scans. > > Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:12:14 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-20 23:04:00 EDT, you write: << Ah!!!I've only ever seen it done halfway convincingly once. And it was really too bad, because everything else about this epic 'Attack on the Yamato' diorama was pretty crappy. And, No, I didn't need the image of Yassir Arafat in something lacey. E.>> Did you see this in a magazine or contest or? and how did they do it? Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:12:14 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <5927ce06.358c881f@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 22:36:57 EDT, you write: << The title of an album by the police ? Oops that was Synchronicity. Think I might have gave away my age. Let's see who is first to ask what an album is... Len >> Give me vinyl or give me silence! Rioberty K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:12:16 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: heep of coots wasRe: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <12f79605.358c8821@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 23:40:45 EDT, you write: << You gave your age away as being younger than anyone that remembers Uriah Heap (sorry Bob :-)) BTW, can anyone actually remember the name of any "song" by Uriah Heap? All I remember is a vague melange of noise (but then that's what I remember of most of the Seventies). Mind you, coot-hood is kind of crazy; I spent 40 minutes last night attempting to glue PE 1/72 gun triggers to an Albatros control column (and failing!). Nigel >> I'm still waiting for a new Yardbird album. Geez. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:12:15 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-21 00:07:32 EDT, you write: << You, Sir, arte barely a "coot" much less an old one. I just made it and I was 73 yesterday. Lee >> My wife just told me that "coot hood" is a state of mind and that I completely qualify! Robert K. (yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off my lawn) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:20:23 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re:Yassir diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <9e0754d8.358c8a08@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 23:04:01 EDT, you write: << somebody like Yassir Arafat wearing something diaphanous out of the Victoria's Secret catalogue. Talk about a sobering image... maybe Verlinden will use this idea for a new figure!!!!! Peter Crow >> I think I've grossed myself out..... Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:20:24 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <273ce3d8.358c8a09@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 20:30:49 EDT, you write: << That might be the Rosemount Drachen. Vac .... six and a half miles of rigging. I think one or two people on this list were at one time tackling that one. Dave Z >> It IS a tempting piece of plastic! Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:21:44 EDT From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <16841193.358c8a59@aol.com> Quoth the Big E; "I also have this idea for a diorama with a 1/72 SPAD veering away from an exploding balloon. I think I have all the engineering and support problems worked out, I'm just not sure how to sculpt an explosion. Could this be a job for(da da daaaa)'Acrylic Medium'?" How about Willy Coppens landing on a Drachen? Not only could you skip the flames and smoke, but since he stopped his engine you could avoid the difficulty representing a spinning prop. Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:25:22 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <358C8B32.4BE6@bellsouth.net> Suvoroff@aol.com wrote: > > Quoth the Big E; > "I also have this idea for a diorama with a 1/72 SPAD veering away from > an exploding balloon. I think I have all the engineering and support > problems worked out, I'm just not sure how to sculpt an explosion. > Could this be a job for(da da daaaa)'Acrylic Medium'?" > > How about Willy Coppens landing on a Drachen? Not only could you skip the > flames and smoke, but since he stopped his engine you could avoid the > difficulty representing a spinning prop. > > Yours, > James D. Gray Lacks drama... E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:30:18 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <12f77a99.358c8c5b@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-20 23:40:45 EDT, Nigel wrote: << BTW, can anyone actually remember the name of any "song" by Uriah Heap? All I remember is a vague melange of noise (but then that's what I remember of most of the Seventies). >> (deeply embarassed for remembering this....) How about "Sweet Lorraine" (let the party carry on...)? Have not heard that for awhile... cant seem to get these new-fangled CD thingies into my 8-track .... Dave Z ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:39:19 -0700 From: "Peter Crow" <888444222@email.msn.com> To: Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <001e01bd9cce$90330260$b916fed0@default> ><< That might be the Rosemount Drachen. Vac .... six and a half miles of rigging. > I think one or two people on this list were at one time tackling that one. > > Dave Z >> The last thing I should be asking with shelves of kits in various stages of what-ever... but is this kit still available????? Peter Crow ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:41:34 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <358C8EFE.990@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: >> the image of Yassir Arafat in something lacey. > E.>> > > Did you see this in a magazine or contest or? and how did they do it? > Robert K. > > It was at the 'Miss Palestine' beauty contest, and I think they just found a teddy in his size and he willingly put it on. But he was just trying to get a bit of a lead over the other girls. Oh!. You meant the Yamato diorama. I saw it at the local contest last year. The smoke was cotton, and I'm not sure what the flames were. But the reason it looked so good to me was that the smoke billows looked to be about the right scale for the model(which was big). The flames may have been made from the same material that the water splashes were made of, whatever that was. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:49:11 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <358C90C7.36DA@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: > My wife just told me that "coot hood" is a state of mind and that I completely > qualify! > Robert K. > (yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off my lawn) (Now I get to celebrate my youth.) So when are you old farts gonna take that inevitable trip down memory lane? I feel so much better knowing that I might just be the youngest person on the list. And in my head, I'm about 25 years younger than my drivers license says. And just to rub it in, Know where I was when JFK got knocked off? Still swimming around in daddy's scrotum. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! The young heretic! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:08:12 -0500 From: "Jim Pliml" To: Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <199806210511.AAA21911@mail.camalott.com> ---------- > From: KarrArt@aol.com > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE > Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 6:25 PM > > In a message dated 98-06-20 18:46:39 EDT, you write: > > << Today is only yesterday's tomorrow - Uriah Heep in some song I can't > > remember the title of :-) > > Bob >> > I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now? > > Sorry > > Robert K. > > The only thing sadder than a young cynic, is an old optimist. > M.T.>> > > I'm proud to say that at the ripe young age of 45, I've finally achieved "old > coot-hood". BTW, I prefer "skeptic"! > Robert K. ' "Too Old To Rock"n"Roll :Too Young To Die" ( sorry, I'm starting to feel the "old coot" stage myself) Jim Pliml > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:25:13 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-21 00:44:41 EDT, you write: << It was at the 'Miss Palestine' beauty contest, and I think they just found a teddy in his size and he willingly put it on. But he was just trying to get a bit of a lead over the other girls. Oh!. You meant the Yamato diorama. I saw it at the local contest last year. The smoke was cotton, and I'm not sure what the flames were. But the reason it looked so good to me was that the smoke billows looked to be about the right scale for the model(which was big). The flames may have been made from the same material that the water splashes were made of, whatever that was. E. >> The painting half of my brain is all atwirl (and the new Miss Palestine is......Ringo Sta.......er...ah.... Yassir!), meanwhile, cotten for smoke seems to be about the only game in town, short of some holographic projection type thingy. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:25:14 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-21 00:52:18 EDT, you write: << And just to rub it in, Know where I was when JFK got knocked off? >> I was buying Auroras at $.69 a kit and paint at ten cents a bottle, and visiting with the WW I pilot who lived down the street (who's name I can't remember....) Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:25:12 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <58dca1fd.358c9939@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-21 00:23:05 EDT, you write: << How about Willy Coppens landing on a Drachen? Not only could you skip the flames and smoke, but since he stopped his engine you could avoid the difficulty representing a spinning prop. Yours, James D. Gray >> Great idea- I wish I'd thought of it. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:55:20 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-21 00:41:14 EDT, Peter Crow wrote: << ><< That might be the Rosemount Drachen. Vac .... six and a half miles of rigging. > I think one or two people on this list were at one time tackling that one. > > Dave Z >> The last thing I should be asking with shelves of kits in various stages of what-ever... but is this kit still available????? >> I saw it for sale in a model shop here, in Toronto, about a month ago. First, though, since it is made by Rosemount, I would suggest you try their web site: www.swiftsite.com/rosemonthobby It is listed there as follows: #200 WW1 DRACHEN - OBERVATION KITE BALLOON - $22.95 USED 1914 THRU 1917 BY GERMANS, FRENCH, BRITISH & RUSSIANS If they are out of stock or the web page is outdated, I can look up the one here for you instead, but it would probably be less expensive to deal with Rosemount directly. Dave Z ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:55:14 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: <358CA042.5E4E@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 98-06-21 00:52:18 EDT, you write: > > << And just to rub it in, Know where I was when JFK got knocked off? >> > > I was buying Auroras at $.69 a kit and paint at ten cents a bottle, and > visiting with the WW I pilot who lived down the street (who's name I can't > remember....) > Robert K. Well, price is a relative thing when comparing across decades, but 69 pennies is a hell of a deal. Even I could put my hands on that. And I can still go visit the Spitfire pilot,(who's name I haven't forgotten /%] /%] /%]), from that other bit of unpleasentness. And I'll lay off the age thing now. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:06:24 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: diaphanicity was Re: WW1 airship (fwd) Message-ID: <358CA2E0.A6C@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: meanwhile, cotten for smoke > seems to be about the only game in town, short of some holographic projection > type thingy. > Robert K. Steve Perry suggested dryer lint with cotton, which makes sense, in a yucky sort of way,/%}. The lint's finer texture could give you some options/effects that cotton wouldn't. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:20:49 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: lint smoke wasRe: diaphanicity was Message-ID: <2a67a969.358ca642@aol.com> In a message dated 98-06-21 02:09:52 EDT, you write: << Steve Perry suggested dryer lint with cotton, which makes sense, in a yucky sort of way,/%}. The lint's finer texture could give you some options/effects that cotton wouldn't. E. >> Wierd as it sounds, that might work ok. Lint could be pulled and stretched out to a finer degree. After all, I have seen people make "paintings" with the stuff that are as good as any tile mosaic, so maybe this is a more versatile material then we suspect. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:20:48 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: In a message dated 98-06-21 01:59:05 EDT, you write: << Well, price is a relative thing when comparing across decades, but 69 pennies is a hell of a deal. Even I could put my hands on that. And I can still go visit the Spitfire pilot,(who's name I haven't forgotten /%] /%] /%]), from that other bit of unpleasentness. And I'll lay off the age thing now. E. >> Sounds like a deal- but I'll still whip any current guitar slinger bold enough to fire up an old tube amp,and go one on one in a little round of improvisational fire and foolery! Robert K. (eh...what was that? the ears aren't what they used to be) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:27:28 -0500 From: huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) To: wwi Subject: Re: on being an old coot, was Re: AM UPDATE Message-ID: >KarrArt@aol.com wrote: >> >> In a message dated 98-06-21 00:52:18 EDT, you write: >> >> << And just to rub it in, Know where I was when JFK got knocked off? >> >> >> I was buying Auroras at $.69 a kit and paint at ten cents a bottle, and >> visiting with the WW I pilot who lived down the street (who's name I can't >> remember....) I was in a Senior English class when the announcement was made. Funny, I still remember that part of High School. According to my birth certificate, I turned 52 this year. There has to a be a typo somewhere on that document. The way I have it figured, mid life crises(sp) won't set in for another 20 to 25 years. At that time, I think I will slow down a bit and take life easy for the last half. Just think, I retired the first time 11 years ago. John Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:58:04 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Musical Ramblings,was old coot angst... Message-ID: <358CAEFC.4D4F@bellsouth.net> KarrArt@aol.com wrote: but I'll still whip any current guitar slinger bold enough > to fire up an old tube amp,and go one on one in a little round of > improvisational fire and foolery! > Robert K. (eh...what was that? the ears aren't what they used to be) No way to make a fair comparison. 1) I'm a bass player, and only a bass player. I'm not a guitar player who couldn't cut it. Ok, I might be a guitar player who wouldn't be able to cut it, but I started out playing bass and that's always been the only axe I've ever worked with. And 2) while I listen to just about every kind of music under the sun,(except Skynnyrd) I prefer to play thrashin 3 chord/2 minute punk rock type songs, and get bored with most other stuff. Unless it has a really great bass line. But you'd never get lost with me as an anchor!/%} E. nl; Swordfish Trombone ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 1080 **********************